The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1887-02-12
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED
FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS
GEORGIA.

WEOhN1As
There L4s been received at Milledge-
vile 10, 900 bales of cotton this season,
which exceeds last years receipts by fifty
bales.
Treasurer James NJ. Sapp has had
placed to the credit of Dodge county in
the Exchange bank of Macon the snug
sum of So, 316.2 %.
Some of Polk county's best citizens
have ordered pecan trees with view to
trying the experiment Of their growth in
that county.
The canal cut by Mr.. Sweeney and
others around the drift in the Oconee
river is washing out handsomely,
although there have been no freshets in
the river since the canal was cut
Mr.. Tol Lester, of Clarke county, last
week killed sixty blackbirds at two shots
besides wounding others. He also fired
at covey of cartridges in a patch of
broomsedge, and killed ten at a single
fire.
Wednesday while Allen Holt, colored
man of Americas, was working in a cut
ON the A, P. and L., about two miles
beyond Lumpkin, the side of the en-
bankment caved in and covered him up.
He was terribly crushed before he could
be extricated, and his life is in danger.
A man living in HARRISON county went
home one night about ten o'clock, while
about three sheets in the wind, and feast
ed upon buzzard, which his good wife
had cooked for the oil that was in the
fowl. 1t is said that the man ate all of
this bird, thinking it was a chicken, and
when he was told Of what he Toasted up
on, he then and there "swore off" and
went to preaching.
The season for woods fires has arrived,
and the woods are being "burned off
throughout the piney woods, or wire
grass region. The open pine woods are
burned off annually for the benefit of the
sheep and cattle that have to subsist up
on what they gather from natures plant
ing. After the wire grass, which gets
hard with half a years growth, has been
burned off to the surface a new and ten
der growth springs up from the roots and
stubble, making the best of grazing for
sheep and cattle A good portion of the
woods on the east side of Flint river has
already been burned.
Opposite the McAfee house, and just
in front of Charlie Hills barber shop, i'll
Smithville, in the road where vehicles
pass, mysterious and well rounded well
can be seen as the result of the sudden
and unexpected caving in Of the earth
which has hitherto kept its locality a Sc
cret The ground gave way as a heavy
loaded wagon passed over it the other
day, and a well with 10 feet Of water and
90 feet in depth from the top to the bot
tom can now be seen there. Various
speculations as to the origin of the well
were hazarded by the crowd which
quickly collected around it, bnt nothing
definite is known about it, though it is
supposed to be a well made by the rail
road men when the Central was being
built.
The legal tender silver mine, in Muir
ray, which so much excitement was made
about some years ago, is being operated
upon again, and better quality Of ore is
now being gotten out than ever before.
Considerable excitement is growing out
of the new find The mine is in CohuttA
mountain, about six miles from Spring
Place Mr. McHan, who owns tract
Of land near the mine, has had an option
taken on his land for 81, 600 There is
millions of wealth in Old Cohutta which
only needs operating on to bring it to the
eyes of the capitalists Captain w. G,
Tilton's fine tale mine, four mile from
Spring Place, is shipping tons Of tale
daily. There is not a day passing bur
what wagons unload the tale in the crude
state at the Dalton depot for eastern
markets. There are the finest tale mines
in Murray county that are now known in
the United St2tea